Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Episode at Changteh. Unmelting Chinese troops last week crept back through the blackened ruins of Changteh, harassing the bedraggled, bandy-legged Japanese in retreat toward their Yangtze River bases. The communiqués once again created an impression of another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war. As in previous foraging expeditions, the Japs had pushed into the Tungting Lake rice bowl of central China. The Chinese 57th Division fought with hand grenades and bayonets until only 300 were...
...Ping (Old Soldier), the Chinese equivalent of the U.S. Army's G.I. Joe, is a husky, shaven-pated peasant who has learned the tricks of silent deployment, timely retreat, ingenious ambuscade. But China's armies are defensive, their determination is only to hold on until Allied help comes. Many of Japan's 400,000 troops in China proper are overage, battle-green. Picked, raw units are sometimes sent to China for battle training, often initiate minor battles to get this training. But in general the debilitating psychological effect of the stalemate is as bad for the Japs...
...defensive weapons as fighter planes, tanks, land mines, antiaircraft and anti-tank guns has actually risen. Even Ruhr coal production has been largely maintained by doubling and tripling shifts, calling for volunteer workers. The locomotive shortage, one of Germany's worst problems, has been eased as German forces retreat and shorten the distances to the front...
...picture's action is not as expert as its characterizations. Towards the end it begins to fall apart. The escaped prisoners whip up a very well-filmed insurrection among French villagers and lead a retreat to join a highly fictional guerrilla army."Let's scorch the earth!" cries implausible Housewife Emma Dunn. They do-and a good deal of the picture's force and persuasiveness go up in smoke. Otherwise, The Cross of Lorraine (which takes its name from its undergrounders' Guallist password) is one of the best war films that has been made...
...manager was steaming down the center aisle, down the boys gave up employment on the spot and executed a swift retreat by way of a convenient fire exit...